Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Containing starch.
- adj. Stiffened with starch.
- adj. Of or resembling starch.
- adj. Stiff; formal: "this starchy, old-fashioned hotel room” ( Anne Tyler).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Stiff; precise; formal in manner.
- Consisting of starch; resembling starch.
- Of a powdery texture due to the predominance of starch: said chiefly of the more amylaceous (soft)_wheats: opposed to horny.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to starch.
- adj. Containing starch.
- adj. Pertaining to the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
- adj. Pertaining to a similarly starched personality; not cruel, but filled with rectitudinity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to starch.
- adj. Containing or consisting of starch; -- used especially of foods.
- adj. Resembling starch; stiff.
- adj. Stiffened by use of starch; starched{1}; -- of clothing.
- adj. Formal in manner; precise.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. consisting of or containing starch
- adj. rigidly formal
Examples
“Luckily the book reminded me of the thickening properties in starchy baking potatoes, and since I already had my food processor out and shredding carrots, I tossed in a leftover raw potato from our bin and added it to the mixture.”
“On the other hand, obesity expert Dr. David Ludwig — interviewed by Taubes for the Times article – found that mice developed a condition called "fatty liver" when fed a diet high in starchy carbs.”
“A few nuts, such as the acorn, cocoanut and chestnut, are very rich in starch, and these should be classified as starchy foods.”
“They swept him forward in a triumphant wave, to seat him at a sticky table and then heap it high with baked fish and some kind of starchy cakes made from a pounded root.”
“Persons troubled with kidney difficulty should abstain from sugar and the things that are converted into sugar in digestion, such as starchy food and sweet vegetables.”
“(applause) How will we manage to find the manpower needed today to solve a series of urgent problems, to solve our supply problems, to eliminate rationing of a number of items as quickly as possible, -- items such as starchy vegetables, for example (applause) -- to have enough milk, not just for children up to the age of seven, but after the age of seven, and even for all citizens up to 70?”
“The “demonization of whole grains and starchy vegetables” (whatever ‘starchy vegetables’ means) is not the focus of my posts.”
“Basically, the evidence points to it being carbohydrates — sugar, flour and starchy vegetables — that cause the insulin secretion that put on fat.”
“First, I should have used more asparagus and less potatoes, because the meal got pretty starchy.”
“Among the requirements for school meals outlined in the proposed rule:•Decrease the amount of starchy vegetables, such as potatoes, corn and green peas, to one cup a week.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘starchy’.
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
spud, tater, starchy, tuberous, <i>Solanum tubero..., <i>Phytophthora i..., potato blight, late blight, blight, Ireland, Irish potato, lumper and 331 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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Word List 2
I don't want to have a list that's too large. So i'll make two
coccyx, memorandum, crepuscule, oodles, ambiance, starchy, condemnation, triskaidekaphobia, wreak, grotto, emanate, annul and 38 more...
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Breadfruit
A delicious and useful fruit and plant! I'm collecting words related to the botany and uses, cultivars, anything really.
breadfruit, arbor de pan, breadnut, chataignier, pao de massa, broodvrucht, castano de malabar, pan de todo el ano, tupan, mazapan, sukun, marure and 58 more...
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